-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP special issue on environmental sensor networks Datum: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:19:51 +0200 Von: Christos Douligeris cdoulig@unipi.gr An: Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Please be advised that the deadline for the special issue of the International Journal on Sensor Networks on Environmental Sensor Networks has a new deadline: December 20, 2007 to allow people who just finish the term exams to submit a paper. I also advise prospective authors to submit their papers through the journal's electronic submission system. Thanks in advance

Christos Douligeris

PS I attach the original CFP

*International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET)** ** **Call for Papers *

*Special Issue on: “Environmental Sensor Networks”*

*/Guest Editors/**: *

· *Prof. Christos Douligeris, *

*University of Piraeus**, Greece**.*

· *Prof. Theodore Tsiligiridis,*

*InfoLab, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.*

* *

An Environmental Sensor Network (ESN) comprises of an array of sensors that gather data autonomously and forward them automatically to a central server. What differentiates modern sensor networks from previous techniques is an emphasis on /intelligence /in the sensors as well as in the data network. Modern sensor networks also typically publish the data on the server on the World Wide Web and allow real-time access to the data. These networks require a unique combination of technological and environmental understanding, and have the potential of creating a revolution in environmental monitoring. Different types of data are collected by the sensor nodes. These data can be in different forms, digital and analogue, spatial and temporal, database or image, fixed or moving. At the server level the data can be visualized and analyzed within a Geographic Information System (GIS), combined with a satellite image and/or map, and published via the Web to give researchers seamless access to information.

ESNs have the capability of capturing local and broadly-dispersed information simultaneously; they also have the capacity to respond to sudden changes in a location by triggering observations selectively across the network while simultaneously updating the underlying complex system model and/or reconfiguring the network. Data gathered by ESNs pose unique challenges for environmental modelling, as a complex system is being observed by a dynamical network. These challenges lie in the fields of computer science (from self organizing networks to algorithm analysis), mathematics (from computational geometry to data fusion and robotics), and statistics (from sampling design to prediction and prediction uncertainty).

This special issue attempts to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists with the objective of formulating and addressing optimization of data gathering, data analysis, data coverage, modelling and inference when the network itself is a dynamic system of self organizing nodes. This collaborative effort will include both development of new computational, mathematical, and statistical tools as well as specific applications of existing ESNs designed to study environmental interactions. We particularly encourage papers that describe experiences drawn from real sensor network deployments, or large-scale simulation experiments, taken from a variety of environmental fields, including for example, bio-geo-science, agriculture, atmospheric and ocean sciences.

*Subject Coverage*

Original contributions on novel, robust, user and environment constraints aware, interoperable and effective solutions, to existing problems within the aforementioned context are invited. Authors are requested to submit manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics:

· Environmental Modelling & Sensing Technologies

· Environmental Systems & Embedded Intelligence

· Environmental Applications & Ambient Intelligence

· Motion and Environmental Monitoring

· Measurements & Detection

· Remote Management

· Miniaturisation

· Embedded ESN Technology

· Enabling Control Applications over ESNs

· Visualization Tools for ESNs

· Self-organized ESNs

· Acoustic and Video Enabled ESNs

· Wireless Networks of Low Power Imaging Sensors

· Indoor/Outdoor Biosensor Networks

· Wireless Sensing

· Low Power Sensing

· Pervasive Sensing

· Localization

· Context/Location Aware Services

· Semantics & Ontologies

· Middleware Interfaces

· Agents and Web services

· Security

*Notes for Intending Authors*

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the /Author Guidelines http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31/ page.

*Important Dates*

Manuscripts submission: /November 30, 2007/

Notification of Acceptance: /January 31, 2008/

Final Submission: /March 1, 2008/

*Editors and Notes*

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31) to the Guest Editors:

*Prof. Theodore Tsiligiridis, *

InfoLab,

Division of Informatics, Mathematics and Statistics

Agricultural University of Athens

75 Iera Odos, Athens 11855

Greece /E-mail/: tsili@aua.gr

*Prof. Christos Douligeris*Ch University of Piraeus Department of Informatics 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Str Piraeus 18534 GREECE

with a copy to:

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_Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor_

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